[rrd-users] Advice wanted on storing data from a xml file

[Steve Shipway]

> > I thought about parsing the file saving the first set into a database and
> > saving the 2nd and 3rd set into a buffer. Which on the next 5 min period
> > the next set is saved, etc.
> >
> > Each data set has its own time stamp
> 
> so, wait until a file is generated, parse it, you now have 3 sets of
> values with timestamp. Update your RRD oldest first, then immediately the
> middle timestamp, then the newest.

If you want to avoid the data normalisation, then you can normalise the timestamps before you use them.

IE,  t = int(t/300)*300, assuming a 5-min interval.

Steve

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